CN1994212B - Cleaner system - Google Patents

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CN1994212B
CN1994212B CN2006101291476A CN200610129147A CN1994212B CN 1994212 B CN1994212 B CN 1994212B CN 2006101291476 A CN2006101291476 A CN 2006101291476A CN 200610129147 A CN200610129147 A CN 200610129147A CN 1994212 B CN1994212 B CN 1994212B
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李俊和
朱载晚
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Abstract

A cleaner system having an improved connecting position and structure between a robot cleaner and a docking station for achieving an improvement in dust removal performance of the docking station. The docking station performs manual cleaning. The robot cleaner has a dust outlet at a top wall of the robot body to discharge the dust collected in the first dust collector into the docking station, and the docking station has a connection port at a position thereof corresponding to the dust outlet to receive the dust discharged from the dust outlet. The robot cleaner or docking station includes a connector to connect the dust outlet to the connection port. The docking station includes a suction part, suction pipe, and suction hole for manual operation. A channel switching member is mounted in the docking station to selectively apply power required to suck dust to the connection port or suction hole.

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Cleaner system
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of cleaner.More specifically, relate to a kind of cleaner system that has the absorption of being arranged for and remove the bus stop (dockingstation) of dust stored in the robot cleaner and loose clast.
Background technology
Traditional cleaner is to be used for removing the device of the dust in room with clean room.Traditional dust catcher is collected dust and loose clast by the suction that low voltage unit produced.Recently, developed and a kind ofly be designed to need not work as on the floor when mobile the clean robot that dust and loose clast are removed from the floor by manual operation.Hereinafter, term " automated cleaning " refers to by the performed clean operation of robot cleaner that removes dust and loose clast when automatic mobile time shift, and term " manually cleaning " refers to by the people and uses the performed clean operation of dust catcher.
Usually, described robot cleaner combines with a station (hereinafter being called bus stop) and forms the single clearing system.Bus stop is positioned at indoor specific location and is used for robot cleaner is charged and removes stored dust of robot cleaner and clast.
An example of above-mentioned cleaner system discloses in No. the 2005/0150519th, U.S. Patent Publication publication.The absorption station that disclosed cleaner system comprises suction device (that is robot cleaner) movably and has the suction unit that is used to draw dust and loose clast.The diapire of robot cleaner comprises the suction inlet that is used to suck dust and loose clast, and brush is installed near the suction inlet so that dust and loose clast are cleaned up in rotatable mode.Drawing the station comprises and makes the robot cleaner can be along the front surface of the inclination of its rising and the suction inlet at part place that is formed at the front surface of inclination.Therefore, when robot cleaner when the front surface that tilts rises to the stop position place, the suction inlet of the front surface of inclination is in the face of the suction inlet of robot cleaner.Operation according to suction unit sucks and removes dust stored in the robot cleaner and clast by drawing the station thus.
In aforesaid traditional cleaner system, collected dust and clast discharged via suction inlet in the robot cleaner.Yet in order to draw dust and loose clast effectively, the suction inlet that also is used to draw dust and loose clast has the width of broad, and therefore is difficult to obtain to drawing effective utilization of the suction that the station produced.
Furthermore, when from robot cleaner dust and loose clast being drawn onto when drawing in the station, near the brush that trends towards being installed in from the dust of suction inlet discharge and clast the suction inlet of robot cleaner snarls.Dust that brush snarled and clast make and make room floor unclean when robot cleaner is carried out automated cleaning once more.
In addition, traditional problem that cleaner system had is, be used for suction passage that suction inlet with robot cleaner is connected to the suction unit of drawing the station robot cleaner by draw must be positioned at when stop at the station robot cleaner below, and therefore make the front surface of the inclination of drawing the station must have higher height.This can make robot cleaner be difficult to stop by drawing the station.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, one aspect of the present invention is to have the link position of improvement and the cleaner system of structure in order to provide a kind of between robot cleaner and bus stop, is improved thereby make the dust of described bus stop remove performance.
Another aspect of the present invention provides a kind of by using bus stop to make the user carry out the cleaner system of manual cleaning, and wherein said bus stop is used to remove collected dust and clast in the robot cleaner.
Additional aspects of the present invention and/or advantage will partly be illustrated in the following description, and will be partly from described explanation clear presenting, perhaps can from enforcement of the present invention, learn.
By providing a kind of cleaner system of robot cleaner and bus stop that comprises to obtain aforementioned and/or others of the present invention, described robot cleaner comprises the robot body with the inlet that is used to receive dust, be installed in the described robot body to collect first dust arrester of received dust, described bus stop removes collected dust in described first dust arrester when it is connected to described robot cleaner, wherein said robot cleaner comprises that being positioned at described robot body roof sentences the dust export that the collected dust of described first dust arrester is discharged to described bus stop, and wherein said bus stop comprises and is formed at its connector corresponding to a position of described dust export, in order to receive the dust of discharging from described dust export, the passage translation building block, described passage translation building block is set in the bus stop body of described bus stop, so that suction optionally is applied to described connector; And, dividing plate, described dividing plate between first interface channel and second interface channel so that described first interface channel and described second interface channel be separated each other.
Described cleaner system further comprises the connector that is installed in described robot cleaner or the bus stop, in order to when described robot cleaner is connected to described bus stop described dust export is connected to described connector.
Described dust export comprises the opening/closing member that is used for closing described dust export when described robot cleaner is carried out automated cleaning.
Described robot cleaner further comprises rechargeable battery, and described bus stop further is included in and is electrically connected to the charger of described rechargeable battery so that described rechargeable battery is charged when described robot cleaner is connected to described bus stop.
Described bus stop further comprises the bus stop body and is installed in the described bus stop body to draw and to collect the air blast and second dust arrester of dust.
Described bus stop further comprises with described bus stop body and linking to each other with the suction line that uses described bus stop manually to clean, and described bus stop body comprises the inlet hole that is connected with described suction line.
First suction passage is limited between described inlet hole and the described connector, and second suction passage is limited between described first suction passage and described second dust arrester to be connected with described first suction passage.
The position that is connected with described second suction passage according to described first suction passage, described first suction passage is divided near the first passage part that is positioned at the described inlet hole and is positioned near the described connector second channel part, and described first suction passage comprises described passage translation building block, described passage translation building block make described second suction passage optionally with described first and second channel parts in one be connected.
Described passage translation building block vertically moves in described first suction passage.
Described first interface channel makes described first passage partly be connected to described second suction passage when described passage translation building block moves down and described second interface channel makes described second channel partly be connected to described second suction passage when described passage translation building block moves up.
Another aspect of the present invention provides a kind of cleaner system that comprises the robot cleaner with first dust arrester and be used to remove the bus stop of dust collected in described first dust arrester, wherein said robot cleaner comprises and is used for dust is discharged to dust export in the described bus stop, and wherein said bus stop comprises the bus stop body that comprises the connector that is used to receive the dust of discharging from described dust export; The dust that is used for drawing from the floor guides to the intrinsic inlet hole of described bus stop; Be used to collect second dust arrester from the dust of described connector and the transmission of described inlet hole; Be used to produce the air blast of drawing the required suction of dust; And the passage translation building block, described passage translation building block is set in the described bus stop body, so that the suction that described air blast was produced optionally is applied to described connector or inlet hole; And, dividing plate, described dividing plate between first interface channel and second interface channel so that described first interface channel and described second interface channel be separated each other.
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These and/or other aspect of the present invention and advantage will be from becoming clear below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and being easier to understand, wherein to the explanation of embodiment:
Fig. 1 is the perspective view of the outward appearance of explanation cleaner system according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 are the robot cleaner shown in the difference key diagram 1 and the side cross-sectional, view of bus stop;
Fig. 4 is the side cross-sectional, view of the cleaner system of Fig. 1, and the robot cleaner and the bus stop that are connected with each other are shown;
Fig. 5 is the perspective view that the outward appearance of cleaner system according to another embodiment of the invention schematically is described;
Fig. 6 is the side cross-sectional, view of the bus stop of key diagram 5; And
Fig. 7 is the side cross-sectional, view of the cleaner system of Fig. 5, and the robot cleaner and the bus stop that are connected with each other are shown.
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Now will be in detail with reference to embodiments of the invention, example of the present invention is shown in the drawings, and wherein identical reference symbol is represented components identical among in the whole text.Embodiment hereinafter will be described the present invention to be described by referenced in schematic.
Fig. 1 is the perspective view of the outward appearance of explanation cleaner system according to an embodiment of the invention.Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 are the robot cleaner shown in the difference key diagram 1 and the side cross-sectional, view of bus stop.Fig. 4 is the side cross-sectional, view of the cleaner system of Fig. 1, and the robot cleaner and the bus stop that are connected with each other are shown.
As shown in Fig. 1 to Fig. 4, cleaner system according to an embodiment of the invention comprises robot cleaner 100 and bus stop 200.Robot cleaner 100 comprises the robot body 110 with the inlet 111 that is used to receive dust and loose clast and is installed in the robot body 110 to collect first dust arrester 120 of received dust and clast.Bus stop 200 removes dust and clast collected in first dust arrester 120 when it links to each other with robot cleaner 100.Carry out automated cleaning when particularly, robot cleaner 100 is designed in being automatically moved to the zone that will clean.When the dust of being drawn and clast surpassed predeterminated level, robot cleaner 100 returned dust and the clast that bus stop 200 is drawn to remove.
As shown in Figure 2, robot cleaner 100 further comprise be installed in the robot body 110 with first air blast 130 of drawing the required power of dust and loose clast is provided and place first air blast 130 and first dust arrester 120 between the dust drawn to prevent and the clast filter 101 that enters first air blast 130.Although not shown, yet the fan that first air blast 130 has air-breathing motor and rotates by air-breathing motor.In addition, amount of dust sensor 102 is installed in the robot body 110, whether surpasses described predeterminated level with quantity and the definite collected dust that detects dust collected in first dust arrester 120 and clast.
Robot body 110 comprises on diapire and is used to pair of driving wheels 112 that robot cleaner 100 is moved.Each driving wheel 112 is optionally driven by the drive motor (not shown), so that robot cleaner 100 moves on required direction.The outer surface of robot body 110 also is provided with obstacle detection sensor 113, for example infrared ray sensor or ultrasonic sensor.Obstacle detection sensor 113 is used for the distance between robot measurement cleaner 100 and robot cleaner 100 obstacle on every side, collides to prevent robot cleaner 100 and obstacle.
Sentence from the floor B in the zone that will clean except the diapire that is formed at robot body 110 and to draw the inlet 111 of dust and loose clast, robot cleaner 100 comprises further that the air-flow that first air blast 130 is produced is discharged to the first outer outlet 114 of robot body 110 and the dust drawn and clast is discharged to dust export 115 in the bus stop 200 when robot cleaner 100 is connected to bus stop 200.In the present invention, first outlet 114 is formed at the rear wall place of robot body 110, and dust export 115 is formed at the roof place of robot body 110.
Brush 116 is installed in rotatable mode near the inlet 111 of robot body 110 so that dust and loose clast are cleaned up from floor B, and enters that pipe 117 is placed between inlet 111 and first dust arrester 120 so that they are connected with each other.
In the present invention, the aforesaid dust export 115 that is formed at robot body 110 roof places must be compared via the traditional structure that the dust inlet that is formed in the robot body is discharged with clast with dust and can guarantee more effectively to remove collected dust and clast in first dust arrester 120.In addition, when not existing by brush 116, dust collected in first dust arrester 120 and clast do not snarl or drop to risk on the B of floor when first dust arrester 120 is discharged.
Dust export 115 with enter the pipe 117 and first dust arrester 120 be connected.Opening/closing member 140 is set at dust export 115 places of robot cleaner 100, in order to only to open dust export 115 when robot cleaner 100 is connected to bus stop 200.Particularly, when robot cleaner 100 was carried out automated cleaning, opening/closing member 140 was closed dust export 115, leaked damage to prevent the suction that first air blast 130 is produced via dust export 115.In addition, when robot cleaner 100 links to each other with the bus stop 200 that is used to remove dust collected in first dust arrester 120 and clast, opening/closing member 140 is opened dust export 115, so that collected dust and clast in first dust arrester 120 guided to bus stop 200.
Robot cleaner 100 further comprises the rechargeable battery 150 of the electric power that the operation that is used for supplying machine people cleaner 100 is required.Rechargeable battery 150 links to each other with charging terminal 151, described charging terminal protruding upward outside the robot body 110 when robot cleaner 100 links to each other with bus stop 200, to charge by commercial alternating current generator.
As shown in Figure 3, bus stop 200 comprises bus stop body 210, is installed in the bus stop body 210 second air blast 220 of drawing the required power of dust collected in first dust arrester 120 and clast to be provided and to be installed in the bus stop body 210 to collect the dust drawn and second dust arrester 230 of clast.Although not shown, yet second air blast 220 comprises air-breathing motor and the fan that rotates by air-breathing motor.
Bus stop body 210 comprises protuberance 211, and described protuberance protrudes forward to cover the top of robot cleaner 100 when robot cleaner 100 returns bus stop 200.One position of the lower surface of protuberance 211 is formed with connector 212, and when robot cleaner 100 linked to each other with bus stop 200, described position was corresponding to dust export 115.Connector 212 receives dust and the clast that transmits from robot cleaner 100.
Connector 240 is assemblied in the connector 212, in order to when robot cleaner 100 links to each other with bus stop 200 dust export 115 of robot cleaner 100 is connected to connector 212.Connector 240 can be an element of selecting from make connector 212 and various elements that dust export 115 is connected when robot cleaner 100 links to each other with bus stop 200.In the present invention, connector 240 is installed in movable pipe fitting in the bus stop body 210 with vertical move mode.Particularly, when robot cleaner 100 linked to each other with bus stop 200, described movable pipe fitting protruded into outside the bus stop body 210 so that connector 212 is connected with dust export 115 (for example, seeing Fig. 3 and Fig. 4) to the lower part.Alternatively, connector 240 can be installed in the robot cleaner 100.
Passage 213 is limited between the connector 212 and second dust arrester 230, guiding to second dust arrester 230 via dust and the clast that connector 212 transmits from first dust arrester 120.In addition, second outlet 214 is formed at the rear wall place of bus stop body 210, is discharged to outside the bus stop body 210 with the air-flow that second air blast 220 is produced.
Charger 250 is installed in the bus stop body 210 and charges with the rechargeable battery 150 to robot cleaner 100.Power supply terminal 251 is set at the place, side of charger 250, to be electrically connected with charging terminal 151 when robot cleaner 100 is connected to bus stop 200.
Hereinafter, for example, the operation of cleaner system of the present invention will be described referring to Fig. 1 to Fig. 4.At first, robot cleaner 100 beginning is moved automatically with the floor B from the zone that will clean and is drawn and remove dust and loose clast.In this dust suction stage, the opening/closing member 140 of robot cleaner 100 can be closed dust export 115, leaks via dust export 115 to prevent the suction that first air blast 130 is produced.Thus, dust of drawing from floor B and clast are by through inlet 111 with enter pipe 117 and be collected in first dust arrester 120.When the quantity of dust collected in first dust arrester 120 and clast surpassed predeterminated level, robot cleaner 100 stopped to clean and returning the bus stop 200 that is used to remove collected dust and clast.When robot cleaner 100 turned back to the precalculated position, the connector 240 that is installed in the bus stop 200 made the dust export 115 of robot cleaner 100 be connected with the connector 212 of bus stop 200.After finishing above-mentioned Connection Step, second air blast 220 turns round and by drawing collected dust and clasts in first dust arrester 120 is sent to second dust arrester 230 to empty first dust arrester 120.In this case, the influence that the inlet 111 of robot cleaner 100 and first outlet 114 are subjected to inside suction, and therefore do not exist when being sent to dust and clast in second dust arrester 230 and make collected dust and clast via 111 risks that leak into outside the robot cleaner 100 that enter the mouth.The filter 101 of being close to first air blast, 130 fronts that act as that described inside suction also has removes the dust and the clast that will be sent in second dust arrester 230.
Simultaneously, though when rechargeable battery 150 when robot cleaner 100 is not filled dust and clast and is just needed charging, robot cleaner 100 can stop cleaning and return bus stop 200.In this case, if collect any dust and clast in first dust arrester 120, then can manually remove described dust and clast.Particularly, when the user between the charge period of robot cleaner 100 when cleaner system input dust removes instruction, the connector 240 of bus stop 200 is operated so that the dust export 115 of robot cleaner 100 is connected with the connector 212 of bus stop 200, then, 220 runnings of second air blast are to remove collected dust and clast in first dust arrester 120.
Fig. 5 is the perspective view that the outward appearance of cleaner system according to another embodiment of the invention schematically is described.Fig. 6 is the side cross-sectional, view of the structure of the bus stop of demonstration Fig. 5.Fig. 7 is the side cross-sectional, view of the cleaner system of Fig. 5, and the robot cleaner and the bus stop that are connected with each other are shown.Second embodiment of the present invention explanation will be used to remove the example of the bus stop of dust as common dust catcher.Hereinafter, with the designated identical reference symbol of the embodiment components identical shown in Fig. 1, and the characteristic feature of present embodiment will only be described.
As shown in Fig. 5 to Fig. 7, the bus stop 200 of cleaner system according to another embodiment of the invention comprises and is used for drawing the absorption part 260 of dust and loose clast and will drawing part 260 from floor B being connected to bus stop 210 is transferred to absorption part 260 with the suction that second air blast 220 is produced suction line 261.
Suction line 261 comprises the first suction line 261a and the second suction line 261b.Handle 262 is placed between the first suction line 261a and the second suction line 261b.Handle 262 comprises that various buttons are to guarantee to be convenient to operation.The first suction line 261a is flexible bellow (flexible winkled pipe), and comprises first end that links to each other with bus stop body 210 and the second end that links to each other with handle 262.The second suction line 261b comprises first end that links to each other with handle 262 and the second end that links to each other with absorption part 260.Therefore, the user can carry out manual cleaning dust and loose clast are removed from the floor when moving freely with stance.
Inlet hole 215 is formed at the upper surface place of the protuberance 211 of bus stop body 210, so that suction line 261 links to each other with inlet hole 215.First suction passage 270 is limited between inlet hole 215 and the connector 212.In addition, for will be dust and clast by first suction passage 270 guide in second dust arrester 230, second suction passage 280 is limited between first suction passage 270 and second dust arrester 230 to be connected with first suction passage 270.Based on the position that first suction passage 270 is connected with second suction passage 280, first suction passage 270 is divided into and is positioned near the first passage part 271 the inlet hole 215 and is positioned near the connector 212 second channel part 272.
First suction passage 270 is provided with passage translation building block 290, described passage translation building block make second suction passage 280 optionally with first and second channel parts 271 and 272 in one be connected.When passage translation building block 290 made first passage part 271 link to each other with second suction passage 280, the suction that second air blast 220 is produced was applied to via inlet hole 215 and draws part 260, thereby makes bus stop 200 can be used as common dust catcher (see figure 6).In addition, in needs remove robot cleaner 100 when collected dust and clast, passage translation building block 290 makes near the second channel part 272 the connector 212 be connected with second suction passage 280, thereby the suction that second air blast 220 is produced is applied to first dust arrester 120 via connector 212 and dust export 115.As a result, collected dust and clast is inhaled into second dust arrester 230 in first dust arrester 120 of robot cleaner 100, thereby removes (for example, seeing Fig. 7) fully from first dust arrester 120.
Passage translation building block 290 is installed into vertical moving in first suction passage 270.Passage translation building block 290 is defined as when it moves down and first interface channel 291 forms one so that first passage part 271 is connected to second suction passage 280, and passage translation building block 290 when it moves up with second interface channel, 292 formation one so that second channel part 272 is connected to second suction passage 280.Dividing plate 293 between first interface channel 291 and second interface channel 292 so that first interface channel and second interface channel be separated each other.
Although not shown in the figures, yet channel switch member 290 comprises that by use the driver element of motor, tooth bar, pinion etc. can vertically move.
The said structure that is passage translation building block 290 only is exemplary with being appreciated that, and needs only optionally ALT-CH alternate channel of passage translation building block 290, and it can be an element of selecting from the various elements that comprise valve.
Clearly visible from the above description, the invention provides a kind of cleaner system, wherein collected dust and clast is discharged to outside the robot cleaner via the dust export that is formed at the robot cleaner top in the robot cleaner, can prevent the suction losses that bus stop produces thus.Therefore, remove collected dust and required time and the suction of clast obtaining to reduce when high dust removes efficient.
Furthermore, according to the present invention, robot cleaner links to each other with bus stop by using connector, and so and does not have a risk that makes the suction leakage loss that dust and bus stop produce when dust is sucked bus stop.
In addition, the bus stop of one embodiment of the present of invention can be used as common dust catcher when adding suction line, thereby improves the convenience that uses.
Although illustrated and illustrated several embodiments of the present invention, yet those of ordinary skills will be understood that, can change these embodiment under the prerequisite that does not depart from principle of the present invention and essence, scope of the present invention is limited in claim and the equivalents thereof.

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1. cleaner system that comprises robot cleaner and bus stop, described robot cleaner comprises:
Robot body with the inlet that is used to receive dust;
Be installed in the described robot body to collect first dust arrester of received dust, wherein said bus stop removes collected dust in described first dust arrester when it links to each other with described robot cleaner,
Wherein said robot cleaner comprises dust export, and described dust export is formed at described robot body roof and sentences collected dust in described first dust arrester is discharged in the described bus stop, and
Wherein said bus stop comprises the bus stop body, be formed at its corresponding to the position of described dust export in order to receive the connector and the suction line of the dust of discharging from described dust export, described suction line links to each other with described bus stop body using described bus stop manually to clean, and described bus stop body comprises the inlet hole that is connected with described suction line;
Passage translation building block, described passage translation building block are set in the bus stop body of described bus stop, so that suction optionally is applied to described connector, and comprise first interface channel and second interface channel; And
Dividing plate, described dividing plate between first interface channel of described passage translation building block and second interface channel so that described first interface channel and described second interface channel be separated each other,
Wherein first suction passage is limited between described inlet hole and the described connector, and described first suction passage is provided with described passage translation building block.
2. cleaner system according to claim 1 further comprises:
Be installed in the connector in described robot cleaner or the described bus stop, in order to when described robot cleaner links to each other with described bus stop, described dust export is connected to described connector.
3. cleaner system according to claim 1, wherein said dust export comprise the opening/closing member that is used for closing described dust export when described robot cleaner is carried out automated cleaning.
4. cleaner system according to claim 1, wherein said robot cleaner further comprises rechargeable battery, and described bus stop is included in and is electrically connected to the charger of described rechargeable battery so that described rechargeable battery is charged when described robot cleaner is connected to described bus stop.
5. cleaner system according to claim 1, wherein said bus stop further comprise and being installed in the described bus stop body to draw and to collect the air blast and second dust arrester of dust.
6. cleaner system according to claim 1, wherein second suction passage is limited between described first suction passage and described second dust arrester to be connected with described first suction passage.
7. cleaner system according to claim 6, wherein, the position that is connected with described second suction passage according to described first suction passage, described first suction passage is divided near the first passage part that is positioned at the described inlet hole and is positioned near the described connector second channel part, and
Wherein said passage translation building block make described second suction passage optionally with described first and second channel parts in one be connected.
8. cleaner system according to claim 7, wherein said passage translation building block vertically move in described first suction passage.
9. cleaner system according to claim 8, wherein said first interface channel makes described first passage partly be connected to described second suction passage when described passage translation building block moves down, and described second interface channel makes described second channel partly be connected to described second suction passage when described passage translation building block moves up.
10. cleaner system that comprises robot cleaner and be used to remove the bus stop of dust collected in described first dust arrester with first dust arrester,
Wherein said robot cleaner comprises and is used for dust is discharged to dust export in the described bus stop that described dust export is formed on the roof place of the robot body of robot cleaner, and
Wherein said bus stop comprises:
Bus stop body, described bus stop body have the connector that is used to receive from the dust of described dust export discharge,
Suction line, described suction line link to each other with described bus stop body using described bus stop manually to clean,
The dust that is communicated with suction line and is used for drawing from the floor receives to the intrinsic inlet hole of described bus stop,
Be used to collect second dust arrester from the dust of described connector and the transmission of described inlet hole,
Be used to produce the air blast of drawing the required suction of dust,
Passage translation building block, described passage translation building block are set in the described bus stop body, so that the suction that described air blast was produced optionally is applied to described connector or inlet hole, and comprise first interface channel and second interface channel, and
Dividing plate, described dividing plate between first interface channel and second interface channel so that described first interface channel and described second interface channel be separated each other,
Wherein first suction passage is limited between described inlet hole and the described connector, and described first suction passage is provided with described passage translation building block.
11. cleaner system according to claim 10, wherein first suction passage is limited between described inlet hole and the described connector, and second suction passage is limited between described first suction passage and described second dust arrester to be connected with described first suction passage.
12. cleaner system according to claim 11, the position that wherein said first suction passage is connected with described second suction passage according to described first suction passage is divided near the first passage part that is positioned at the described inlet hole and is positioned near the described connector second channel part, and described passage translation building block make described second suction passage optionally with described first and second channel parts in one be connected.
13. a cleaner system comprises:
Automated cleaning is also collected the robot cleaner of dust, and comprise:
Be used to receive the inlet of dust,
Collect first dust arrester by the received dust of described inlet,
Be positioned on the described robot cleaner top so that dust from the dust export of its discharge; And be used for bus stop that dust is removed from described robot cleaner, and comprise:
Suction line, described suction line links to each other to use described bus stop manually to clean with the bus stop body of described bus stop, and described bus stop body comprises the inlet hole that is communicated with suction line,
Protuberance, wherein said robot cleaner are housed inside under the described protuberance and link to each other with described bus stop and remove operation to carry out dust,
Connector, described connector links to each other with described dust export corresponding to the described dust export of described robot cleaner and by connector, with the dust of reception from described dust export discharge,
Collect second dust arrester by the received dust of described connector,
Passage translation building block, described passage translation building block are set in the bus stop body of described bus stop, so that suction optionally is applied to described connector, and comprise first interface channel and second interface channel; And
Dividing plate, described dividing plate between first interface channel and second interface channel so that described first interface channel and described second interface channel be separated each other,
Wherein first suction passage is limited between described inlet hole and the described connector, and described first suction passage is provided with described passage translation building block.
14. cleaner system according to claim 13 further comprises:
Link to each other to draw the absorption part of dust with described bus stop; And
Wherein said suction line makes described absorption part link to each other with described bus stop and receives the dust that described drawing section branch is drawn, thereby makes the user can carry out manual cleaning by described bus stop.
15. cleaner system according to claim 14, wherein said bus stop further comprises:
Described inlet hole passes described protuberance and forms and corresponding to described connector, to hold described suction line therein;
Be formed at first suction passage between described inlet hole and the described connector; And
Be formed at second suction passage between described first suction passage and described second dust arrester, wherein said drawing section divides collected dust to move in described first suction passage via described suction line, and enters in described second dust arrester by described second suction passage.
16. cleaner system according to claim 13, wherein when described robot cleaner carries out automated cleaning and collects dust, when the collected dust of described first dust arrester of described robot cleaner surpasses predeterminated level, described robot cleaner returns the bus stop that is used to remove collected dust, and described bus stop execution dust removes operation.
17. cleaner system according to claim 16, wherein said robot cleaner further comprises the amount of dust sensor, and described amount of dust sensor is used to detect amount of dust collected in described first dust arrester and determines whether collected dust surpasses described predeterminated level.
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